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>>todsac+(OP)

  continue was called loop for some reason

How strange! Does anyone know why?

>>raveni+8Gm
There was an early rule that Rust keywords should be five characters or less. I would guess it's because of this rule. I believe loop turned into cont to satisfy this rule, and then eventually we relaxed the rule, and it became continue.

>>stevek+WLm
Whoa, do you know who and why came up with that? So strange, making it less readable on purpose?

>>iknows+qVm
IIRC it was just a personal preference of Graydon's back then. I'm also not sure it was intended to live forever, just something to try and nudge things in a particular direction.

Terseness doesn't inherently mean less readable.

I do think that that rule is probably not one that would be good permanently.